Category: Interesting

Sleep. We all need it, and we spend about a third of our lives doing it. Scientists aren’t totally sure why we need to sleep, though they do have a few good guesses. It’s obviously an important biological function, because practically every single animal needs to sleep in some form or another. But since it isn’t always practical for some species to just conk out for 8 hours, a lot of animals have evolved some clever workarounds. Read more

Have you ever played a video game for so long, but when you finally put on the controller and are maybe falling asleep, you see images of the game flash before your eyes? These hallucinations can be a lot of things too: jumping from an airplane, chase or apple-picking and they happen in the weird limbo between wakefulness and sleep called hypnagogia. In fact, lots of strange things can happen in this state like twitching or something called exploding head syndrome. Don’t worry, no brain bits are involved in that one, but it can still get pretty trippy. Read more

Think about it. You spend about one third of your life sleeping. And chances are, you are doing that in your warm cozy bed. But what if you spent ALL of your time in bed? What if you never left? That soft mattress can’t hurt you right…right?! Sadly, it can… And believe it or not, NASA paid a guy 18 thousand dollars to lie in bed for 70 days. They wanted to study the effects of micro gravity on the human body and lying down for so long simulates the effects of long-haul flights on astronauts’ bodies. Read more

Three thousand years BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on tablets made of wax . One millennium later, Ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book listing for more than hundred common dreams and their meanings. And in the years that came, we haven’t paused in our quest to understand why we dream. So, after a great technological advancement, scientific research, and persistence, we still don’t have any clue. All we have some are just some interesting theories. We dream to solve problems In your dreams, your mind is unbound to obey the laws of reality and common sense. He can create limitless scenarios to help you grasp problems and formulate solutions that you may not consider while awake. It is how renowned chemist August Kekule discovered the structure of the benzene molecule. John Steinbeck called it the committee of sleep, and researcher has demonstrated the effectiveness of dreaming on problem solving. So maybe that is the reason for the saying: The best solution for a problem is to sleep on it. Read more

Sleep is very important for every living thing. We cannot function without it. Ever wondered what happens if you go on without sleeping? If you stay awake all the time? In 1965, 17-year-old high school student did just that! Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours. That is whole 11 days just to see how he’d cope without sleep. What happened? Read more